An automotive assembly line robot mortally injured a worker at a car factory in Germany this week, a prosecutor’s office said.
Los Angeles Kings defenseman Slava Voynov remains suspended from the NHL after a judge accepted a plea deal on Thursday.
At the World Series of Poker, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, is a celebrity. In the last five sessions of Congress, Barton has either been the primary sponsor or signed on to a bill that would legalize Internet poker in the U.S. His most reason version of the measure was introduced on June 25.
As the nation emerged from the Great Depression and World War II raged abroad, Delbert Machabee and Frank Morrill opened a small office supplies and stationery store in downtown Reno. Seventy-five years later, the company is known as Machabee Office Environments, and Delbert Machabee’s grandson, Scott Machabee, is company president.
A Las Vegas woman has been indicted on 94 felony counts in a multimillion-dollar telemarketing scheme that defrauded small businesses.
Nevada Highway Patrol troopers found a man dead in an SUV near Lake Mead on Thursday afternoon. Highway patrol spokesman Loy Hixson said the troopers were originally sent to check out reports of a fatality from a single-vehicle collision just before 2 p.m.
A is for Adios. Actress Sonia Manzano announced this week at the American Library Association’s conference that she would be leaving her role of Maria on “Sesame Street,” a part she has played for 44 years.
Federal prosecutors will not appeal a judge’s decision dismissing an illegal gambling case against wealthy Malaysian businessman Paul Phua, Nevada U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden said Friday.
A neuropsychologist who ran tests on Colorado movie massacre gunman James Holmes over three days after the 2012 attack told jurors at his murder trial on Thursday there were no signs the shooter was faking mental illness.
Tim Duncan will return for a 19th season with the San Antonio Spurs, and he might get some help in free-agent center LaMarcus Aldridge.
Las Vegas has always been known as a party city, drawing millions of people each year to its dynamic selection of entertainment. And the Fourth of July will be no exception.
The Confederate flag has become a divisive symbol as well as a remnant of a South that fought to protect the institution of slavery. Among those people the flag offends is Brian France, chairman of NASCAR, who has aggressively sought a leadership role in response to the events in Charleston, S.C.
Southbound Interstate 15 was closed briefly Thursday afternoon following a vehicle fire, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that the trial centered around Gawker Media’s publication of a sex tape featuring Hogan will not begin on July 6 because of a legal technicality. The judge had not allowed sufficient time between the last motion filed and the start of the trial.
A previously undetected measles infection was found by an autopsy to be the underlying cause of a Washington state woman’s death this spring, marking the first known U.S. fatality from the disease in 12 years, public health officials said on Thursday.
New smartphone and automotive technology on display at the International Parking Institute Conference and Expo in Las Vegas promises your car will soon find an open parking space, guide you to it and then pay for it for you.
This Fourth of July will mark the 239th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, the document that birthed the nation.
Trees covered in shoes, a house made of bottles and a man covered in toilet paper are all some of Nevada’s weirdest roadside attractions.
The Butler did it twice on Wednesday night as Joey Butler spoiled Carlos Carrasco’s perfect game with a walk in the seventh inning and broke up the Indians pitcher’s no-hitter with a two-out, two-strike single in the ninth.
A 44-year-old woman plummeted 400 feet to her death from an observation deck overlooking the Royal Gorge canyon in the mountains of south-central Colorado, authorities said on Wednesday.
A 20-year-old woman was killed and a passenger was injured in a single-vehicle rollover near the intersection of Smoke Ranch Road and Decatur Boulevard on Thursday, according to LasVegas police.
Given the Supreme Courts recent ground breaking decision on gay marriage, one Lockwood, Mont., family is now looking to solidify rights of its own.
A Las Vegas-based travel wholesaler has agreed to settle sexual harassment and retaliation charges filed in 2009 and 2010 by eight women who said they were harassed by a “senior-level company official.”
An attorney for a High Desert State Prison inmate has filed a use-of force lawsuit alleging the inmate was “sadistically and maliciously shot” by a guard in November.
If you can’t find a fireworks show this Fourth of July weekend, you’re just not trying. It seems everyone is having one, from Boulder City and Pahrump to Caesars Palace and Mandalay Bay. And those are not the only festivities planned for Independence Day.
Wide receiver C.J. Harris of East Valley High School in Redlands, Calif., committed to UNLV, choosing the Rebels over UNR. He is the fifth commitment for the 2015 recruiting class.
Chicago has expanded its taxing power to extend to streaming services. The city’s residents will now pay an extra 9 percent tax to use services such as Netflix and Spotify.
A Las Vegas police detective accused in an attack on a prostitute was sentenced Thursday to three years probation.
A person is expected to survive after being shot in the leg at an apartment complex in the east valley, Las Vegas police said.
American Pharoah looks to have horse of the year locked up. But stakes races — including the Dwyer, Belmont Derby and Belmont Oaks back east and Los Alamitos Derby out west — could provide fireworks on Saturday.